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Headword:
*trio/rxhs
Adler number: tau,995
Translated headword: buzzard
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The buzzard [is] a kind of hawk.
The tyrant of
Sicily "[was] a common prostitute, ready [to give himself] to the most debauched, a jackdaw, a buzzard, presenting his backside to all who wanted it. When he died, [
Timaeus says that] his wife cried out to him in lamentation, 'What [did] I not [carnally do to] you? And what [did] you not [reciprocate to] me?'"[1]
*trio/rxhs: i(e/rakos ei)=dos o( trio/rxhs. o(/ti o( tu/rannos *sikeli/as koino\s po/rnos, e(/toimos toi=s a)krateste/rois, koloio/s, trio/rxhs, pa/ntwn tw=n boulome/nwn toi=s o)/pisqen e)/mprosqen gegonw/s: o(\s o(/te a)pe/qane, th\n gunai=ka/ fhsi kataklaiome/nhn au)to\n ou(/tw qrhnei=n: ti/ d' ou)k e)gw\ se/; ti/ d' ou)k e)me\ su/;
Note:
[1]
Polybius 12.15.2-3, on
Agathocles. The translation has been largely taken over from
alpha 117, to which the reader is referred for notes and bibliography. Cf. also
tau 1188.
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 12 August 2001@02:39:01.
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